Thanks for the clarification Johannes. As to the issue of Past/Forward, it seems as if it is yet another example of an experimental/radical genre being made palatable for a mainstream audience through decontextualization. In other words, by eviscerating the political content of the work it becomes a kind of fetishized version of the original. Makes me think of Benjamin's thesis regarding mechanical reproduction and the loss of the aura. As a side note, in the summer video dance intensive I am planning here at UW MAdison, we will feature a seminar with Sally Banes and Noel Carrol called, "Moving-Picture Dance: Aesthetics" that will focus on how one engages in critical discourse about mediated dance. Doug Johannes Birringer wrote: > Can you explain your question here? > > ><As to Doug's reply, it's a nice vernacular image: "ultimately if it > looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, then...people are going to call > it a duck." > > What would you say if one were to suggest that the > ultimately "quacking like a duck" is precisely the sore point in the > question that Dawn raised a while ago? >> > > I took your vernacular image to mean that new dance works coming out of > the dance-technology community look like vernacular dance and use > vernacular dance vocabulary and find themselves on the familiar > proscenium stage and thus will be reviewed by ballet and modern dance > critics? Dawn's question, back in December, was "where are the major > works of dance that use Xtechnolgy that have been taken seriously by > the art critics/writers besides BIPED?" > > I suppose you answered it already. > >Culturally it seems, we don't have space for contemporary radical practices, practices which do not continue to hinge on historically recognizable practices>> > > To this I'd answer that if we don't strive for precisely such practices > that create space of recognition in the culture, then we'll find > ourselves badly compromised. > > I was hoping, by the way, that someone would pick up the ball and > comment on my post regarding "Past/Forward" -- "Baryshnikov Dancing > Judson" ............ > > greetings, and happy new year > Johannes Birringer > OSU_dance & technology
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